Growing a Healing MinistryThis book is based directly on the experience and wisdom of those who have established energy-touch healing ministries in congregational settings. |
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... ritual , the laying - on of hands is often combined with anointing with oil and prayer as outlined in James 5. In either form , touch has long been associated with tapping into a source of power beyond ordinary reality , a primary ...
... ritual , the laying - on of hands is often combined with anointing with oil and prayer as outlined in James 5. In either form , touch has long been associated with tapping into a source of power beyond ordinary reality , a primary ...
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... ritual is proper , orderly , predictable Shaman / Folk Healer ⚫ informal sector . not affiliated with an institution . serve the peasants ⚫ matchmaker between the human and divine • ritual is spontaneous , experiential , unpredictable ...
... ritual is proper , orderly , predictable Shaman / Folk Healer ⚫ informal sector . not affiliated with an institution . serve the peasants ⚫ matchmaker between the human and divine • ritual is spontaneous , experiential , unpredictable ...
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... rituals ; whereas priestly ritual is concerned with regularity and a predictable future , shamanic ritual centers on transformative powers and experiment . " Shamanic ritual is the opening of a window , the casting of a net , the ...
... rituals ; whereas priestly ritual is concerned with regularity and a predictable future , shamanic ritual centers on transformative powers and experiment . " Shamanic ritual is the opening of a window , the casting of a net , the ...
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... rituals or institutions . The scribes in the story , constrained by the rules of the religious institution , instinctively limit and control God's actions , as they themselves are bound . Conflict between Jesus and the Religious ...
... rituals or institutions . The scribes in the story , constrained by the rules of the religious institution , instinctively limit and control God's actions , as they themselves are bound . Conflict between Jesus and the Religious ...
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... ritual ; the giver simply holds the intention for transformation , healing , and the highest good of all concerned while letting go of any specific outcome or need to control . Even though the model of shaman may be legitimately drawn ...
... ritual ; the giver simply holds the intention for transformation , healing , and the highest good of all concerned while letting go of any specific outcome or need to control . Even though the model of shaman may be legitimately drawn ...
Contents
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Vision Mission | 59 |
Ethical Guidelines | 73 |
Preparing the Ground for Planting | 99 |
Planting the seed | 117 |
Nurturing What Is Planted | 135 |
Tasting the Fruits | 149 |
Taking StockProgram Evaluation | 163 |
Taking Stock Theological Reflections | 185 |
Midwives to the Divine Mystery | 207 |
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Popular passages
Page 8 - On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Page 199 - And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.
Page 21 - And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of sickness.
Page 135 - A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched; and since they had no root they withered away.
Page 108 - The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews.
Page 73 - Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Page 108 - On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies...
Page 140 - For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Page 108 - It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return.